A wanted poster (or wanted sign ) is a poster distributed to let the public know of a person whom authorities wish to apprehend. They generally include a picture of the person, either a photograph when one is available or of a facial composite image produced by the police.
87-592: Django Unchained is a 2012 American revisionist Western film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino , starring Jamie Foxx , Christoph Waltz , Leonardo DiCaprio , Kerry Washington , and Samuel L. Jackson , with Walton Goggins , Dennis Christopher , James Remar , Michael Parks , and Don Johnson in supporting roles. Set in the Antebellum South and Old West , it is a highly stylized, revisionist tribute to spaghetti Westerns . Its title refers particularly to
174-436: A house slave who speaks German and English. They are stopped by Dr. King Schultz, a German dentist -turned- bounty hunter seeking to buy Django for his knowledge of the three outlaw Brittle brothers. They were overseers at the plantation of Django's previous owner and Schultz has a warrant for their arrests. Ace refuses to sell Django to Schultz and threatens him. Schultz kills Ace and shoots Dicky's horse to pin him to
261-434: A Gunfighter " and "Daughter of Son of a Gunfighter". Zoë Bell , Michael Bowen , Robert Carradine , Jake Garber , Ted Neeley , James Parks , and Tom Savini play Candyland trackers. Jacky Ido , who played Marcel in Tarantino's 2009 film Inglourious Basterds , makes an uncredited appearance as a slave. Michael Parks as Roy and John Jarratt as Floyd, alongside Tarantino himself in a cameo appearance as Frankie, play
348-428: A bounty hunter. They return to Texas, where Django collects his first bounty, keeping the handbill as a memento and for good luck. He and Schultz rack up several bounties before spring when they travel to Mississippi and learn that Broomhilda's new owner is Calvin J. Candie, owner of the "Candyland" plantation. There, he forces male slaves to wrestle to the death in brutal " Mandingo " fights. Schultz and Django hatch
435-423: A fantastic ballad that was truly lovely and poetic in every way, but there just wasn't a scene for it." Ocean later published the song, entitled " Wiseman ", on his Tumblr blog. The film also features a few famous pieces of western classical music , including Beethoven 's " Für Elise " and "Dies Irae" from Verdi's Requiem . Tarantino has stated that he avoids using full scores of original music: "I just don't like
522-455: A gunfighter is over. Shane rides away to an uncertain future, possibly to die (he is wounded), and it is farmer Starrett ( Van Heflin ) and his family who endure. Fifteen years after Stevens's Shane , Sergio Leone directed Once Upon a Time in the West , a revisionist Western which completely subverts the traditional with complex characters and multiple plot devices, the key one being revenge –
609-575: A movie about Nazis." The review by Jesse Williams notes, however, that these antisemitic terms were not used nearly as frequently in Tarantino's film about Nazis, Inglourious Basterds , as he used "nigger" in Django. He suggested that the Jewish community would not have accepted it. Revisionist Western The revisionist Western is a sub- genre of the Western fiction. Called a post-classical variation of
696-451: A mysterious horseman who haunts Django in visions and is revealed in an ending flashback to be Django's father; Tarantino opted not to use the idea. Kevin Costner was in negotiations to join as Ace Woody, a Mandingo trainer and Candie's right-hand man, but Costner dropped out due to scheduling conflicts. Kurt Russell was cast instead but also later left the role. When Kurt Russell dropped out,
783-532: A new perspective on the Western genre. Early examples of this sub-genre are Leone's A Fistful of Dollars , starring Clint Eastwood , and Corbucci's Minnesota Clay , starring Cameron Mitchell , both made in 1964. The revisionist and psychological Westerns have been carried forward from their own standard settings into the neo-Western , a notable of which is the Coen brothers ' No Country for Old Men (2007), based on
870-464: A physical bulletin board or in the lobby of a post office . Today many wanted posters are displayed on the Internet . However, wanted posters have also been produced by vigilante groups, railway security, private agencies such as Pinkerton , or by express companies that have sustained a robbery . Wanted posters also might include rewards for providing aid in the capture of the wanted person, usually in
957-418: A plan: deciding that Candie will refuse to sell Broomhilda if they try to buy her upfront, they will instead offer $ 12,000 (equivalent to $ 423,000 in 2023) for one of his best fighters as a pretext to acquire Broomhilda for a nominal sum. They intend to leave the plantation with Broomhilda under the pretense of returning with the purchase money for a fighter. They meet Candie at his gentlemen's club and make
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#17328760331521044-648: A reference for Django's valet outfit. In the final scene, Broomhilda wears a dress similar to that of Ida Galli 's character in Blood for a Silver Dollar (1965). Davis said the idea of Calvin Candie's costume came partly from Rhett Butler , and that Don Johnson's signature Miami Vice look inspired Big Daddy's cream-colored linen suit in the film. King Schultz's faux chinchilla coat was inspired by Telly Savalas in Kojak . Davis also revealed that many of her costume ideas did not make
1131-614: A reward for either bringing the person or their corpse to the authorities. This could indicate that the person was an outlaw , and that it was permissible to kill them. Alternatively, the phrase might mean that it was permissible to kill them if they resisted arrest. While most issuers of wanted posters instead preferred the target to be taken alive in order to stand trial, some private organizations were willing to go to these extreme measures to protect their interests. Wanted posters have been used by media sources to cast prominent figures as wild west criminals. Popular examples of this include
1218-593: A spiteful, brown-toothed bully, avaricious, vain and prone to flattery", but criticized Foxx as a comparatively weak link whose "soft, musical voice [...] jars against Django's terse deliveries". To the contrary, Owen Gleiberman , film critic for the Entertainment Weekly , wrote: " Django isn't nearly the film that Inglourious was. It's less clever, and it doesn't have enough major characters – or enough of Tarantino's trademark structural ingenuity – to earn its two-hour-and-45-minute running time." In his review for
1305-402: A traditional Western drifter riding across a traditional Western landscape but it is soon apparent that he has entered a complex setting which is populated by, as Kim Newman puts it, "believable characters with mixed motives". Even though rancher Ryker ( Emile Meyer ) is ostensibly the villain of the piece, he makes the point that he has striven for thirty years to develop the cattle range which
1392-535: A white woman was blown away by Django's guns." An entire issue of the academic journal Safundi was devoted to Django Unchained in " Django Unchained and the Global Western ," featuring scholars who contextualize Tarantino's film as a classic "Western". Dana Phillips writes: "Tarantino's film is immensely entertaining, not despite but because it is so very audacious—even, at times, downright lurid, thanks to its treatment of slavery, race relations, and that staple of
1479-491: A younger version of the blacksmith character from RZA's film appear as a slave in an auction. However, scheduling conflicts prevented RZA's participation. One inspiration for the film is Corbucci's 1966 Spaghetti Western Django , whose star Franco Nero has a cameo appearance in Django Unchained . Another inspiration is the 1975 film Mandingo , about a slave trained to fight other slaves. Tarantino included scenes in
1566-838: Is another incendiary masterpiece from Quentin Tarantino." Metacritic , which assigns a rating to reviews, gives the film a weighted average score of 81 out of 100, based on 42 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A−" on an A+ to F scale. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film four stars out of four and said: "The film offers one sensational sequence after another, all set around these two intriguing characters who seem opposites but share pragmatic, financial and personal issues." Ebert also added, "had I not been prevented from seeing it sooner because of an injury, this would have been on my year's best films list." Peter Bradshaw , film critic for The Guardian , awarded
1653-498: Is crazily entertaining, brazenly irresponsible and also ethically serious in a way that is entirely consistent with its playfulness." Designating the film a Times "critics" pick, Scott said Django is "a troubling and important movie about slavery and racism." Filmmaker Michael Moore praised Django , tweeting that the movie "is one of the best film satires ever." Dan Jolin of Empire magazine praised DiCaprio's performance, saying he "plays [the role of Candie] to hateful perfection:
1740-705: Is generally agreed that there were hints of a darker perspective in some films of the 1930s such as Westward Ho (1935), directed by Robert N. Bradbury and starring John Wayne , in which the hero leads a band of vigilantes on a quest for revenge. Westward Ho is the earliest film in AllMovie 's list of revisionist Westerns. The earliest films classified by AllMovie as psychological Westerns are The Ox-Bow Incident and The Outlaw (both 1943). The Outlaw/Gunfighter sub-genre focused on outlaws and gunfighters as human beings rather than using them as stock characters, often dressed in black, as in traditional Westerns. The aim
1827-481: Is not exhaustive. It includes major films labelled revisionist Western, anti-Western, psychological Western, Indian Western, outlaw Western, gunfighter Western, or spaghetti Western. By 1970, revisionism had supplanted the traditional as the predominant Western sub-genre and so the list highlights the films released until then to illustrate the development of the concept. Subsequently, revisionist themes have prevailed in Western film production. Major releases from 1971 to
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#17328760331521914-411: Is now being taken over by fence-building " sodbusters ", many of whom have the mixed motives noted by Newman. Despite the complexity of its characters, Shane is nevertheless filmed in a conventional setting and ends with the hero outshooting and killing the three main villains. There is, however, an element of revisionism in the ending when the disillusioned Shane admits to Ryker that he knows his day as
2001-475: The 85th Academy Awards . Waltz won several awards for his performance, among them Best Supporting Actor at the Academy Awards , Golden Globes and BAFTAs . For his screenplay, Tarantino won an Academy Award , a Golden Globe , and a BAFTA . In 1858 Texas , brothers Ace and Dicky Speck drive a group of shackled black slaves . Among them is Django, sold off and separated from his wife Broomhilda von Shaft,
2088-491: The Hays Code restrictions were relaxed, that revisionism finally supplanted the traditional. Although many earlier Westerns are labelled as revisionist, the distinction between them is often blurred by variable themes and plot devices. Some are labelled psychological Westerns , which is closely related to and sometimes overlaps with the psychological drama and psychological thriller genres because of their focus on character, at
2175-478: The Indy Week , David Fellerath wrote: " Django Unchained shows signs that Tarantino did little research beyond repeated viewings of Sergio Corbucci's 1966 spaghetti Western Django and a blaxploitation from 1975 called Boss Nigger , written by and starring Fred Williamson ." New Yorker ' s Anthony Lane was "disturbed by their [Tarantino's fans'] yelps of triumphant laughter, at the screening I attended, as
2262-506: The 1966 Italian film Django by Sergio Corbucci (that film's star, Franco Nero , has a cameo appearance in Tarantino's). The story follows a slave who trains under a German bounty hunter with the ultimate goal of reuniting with his wife. Development of Django Unchained began in 2007 when Tarantino was writing a book on Corbucci. By April 2011, Tarantino sent his final draft of the script to The Weinstein Company (TWC). Casting began in
2349-488: The Bureau's overall publicity efforts that included the billboards. The FBI now claims to have access to over 5,200 billboards nationwide. Wanted posters for particularly notorious fugitives frequently offer a bounty for the capture of the person, or for a person who can provide information leading to such capture. Bounties provided an incentive for citizens to aid law enforcement, either by providing information, or by catching
2436-801: The LeQuint Dickey Mining Company employees. Tarantino also appears in the film as a masked Bag Head named Robert. In 2007, Quentin Tarantino discussed an idea for a type of Spaghetti Western set in the United States' pre-Civil War Deep South . He called this type of film "a Southern", stating that he wanted: "...to do movies that deal with America's horrible past with slavery and stuff but do them like Spaghetti Westerns, not like big issue movies. I want to do them like they're genre films, but they deal with everything that America has never dealt with because it's ashamed of it, and other countries don't really deal with because they don't feel they have
2523-438: The United States and Canada and $ 263.2 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $ 426 million, against a production budget of $ 100 million. As of 2013, Django Unchained is Tarantino's highest-grossing film, surpassing his 2009 film Inglourious Basterds , which grossed $ 321.4 million worldwide. In North America, the film made $ 15 million on Christmas Day, finishing second behind fellow opener Les Misérables . It
2610-439: The United States. It grossed $ 426 million worldwide against its budget of $ 100 million, becoming Tarantino's highest-grossing movie to-date. The film received acclaim from critics, mainly for Waltz's performance and Tarantino's direction and screenplay. The film's extensive graphic violence and frequent use of racial slurs were controversial. The film received numerous awards and nominations , winning two out of five nominations at
2697-543: The Western as a way to represent Leftist doctrine in the second half of the 1960s, interpreting the conflict between Mexico and the U.S. through the lens of Italian politics. Leone popularized the morally ambivalent gunfighter through his representation of "The Man with No Name," Clint Eastwood's gritty anti-hero who was copied again and again in Spaghetti Westerns in characters such as Django and Ringo and which came to be one of its universal attributes. Beginning in
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2784-500: The Western, violence. No doubt these are matters that another director would have handled more delicately, and with less stylistic excess, than Tarantino, who has never been bashful. Another director also would have been less willing to proclaim his film the first in a new genre, the 'Southern'." Django Unchained was listed on many critics' top ten lists of 2012. Django Unchained garnered several awards and nominations. The American Film Institute named it one of its Top Ten Movies of
2871-818: The Year in December 2012. The film received five Golden Globe Award nominations, including Best Picture , and Best Director and Best Screenplay for Tarantino. Tarantino won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay . Christoph Waltz received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor , the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor , and the BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor , his second time receiving all three awards, having previously won for his role in Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds . The NAACP Image Awards gave
2958-445: The criminal themselves. More modern wanted posters may also include images of the fugitive's fingerprints. People who, as a profession, chase wanted individuals with the intent to collect their bounties are referred to as bounty hunters . Composite images for use in wanted posters can be created with various methods, including: Historically, some wanted posters offering a reward contained the phrase "dead or alive". Thus one would get
3045-493: The deal. Having had enough of Candie's arrogance, Schultz shoots and kills Candie. Butch Pooch, Candie's bodyguard, kills Schultz, and Django kills Pooch, Candie's lawyer Leonide Moguy, and many of Candie's henchmen in a prolonged gunfight. He is forced to surrender when Broomhilda is taken hostage . The next morning, the chained Django is tortured and about to be castrated by overseer Billy Crash when Stephen arrives, informing him that Candie's sister Lara, who has taken charge of
3132-427: The early 1970s are particularly noted for their hyper-realistic photography and production design. Other films, such as those directed by Clint Eastwood , were made by professionals familiar with the Western as a criticism and expansion against and beyond the genre. Eastwood's The Outlaw Josey Wales ( 1976 ) and Unforgiven ( 1992 ) made use of strong supporting roles for women and Native Americans . This list
3219-439: The end Jamie Foxx was cast in the role. Smith later said he turned down the role because it "wasn't the lead" and was "not for me," but stated he thought the movie was brilliant. Tyrese Gibson sent in an audition tape as the character. Franco Nero , the original Django from the 1966 Italian film , was rumored for the role of Calvin Candie, but instead was given a cameo appearance as a minor character. Nero suggested that he play
3306-436: The expense of the action and thrills that predominate in the traditional. Other revisionist films, in which action and adventure remain prominent, are labelled Indian Westerns or outlaw/gunfighter Westerns because, instead of the traditional hero , the protagonist is a Native American , an outlaw , or a gunfighter . The term anti-Western is generally used in reference to particularly gruesome and/or nihilistic examples of
3393-536: The film five stars, writing: "I can only say Django delivers, wholesale, that particular narcotic and delirious pleasure that Tarantino still knows how to confect in the cinema, something to do with the manipulation of surfaces. It's as unwholesome, deplorable and delicious as a forbidden cigarette." Writing in The New York Times , critic A. O. Scott compared Django to Tarantino's earlier Inglourious Basterds : "Like Inglourious Basterds , Django Unchained
3480-514: The film four nominations, while the National Board of Review named DiCaprio their Best Supporting Actor . Django Unchained earned a nomination for Best Theatrical Motion Picture from the Producers Guild of America . Some commentators thought that the film's over-usage of the word " nigger " was inappropriate; they objected to that even more than to the extensive violence depicted against
3567-443: The film include "100 Black Coffins" by Rick Ross and produced by and featuring Jamie Foxx, "Who Did That To You?" by John Legend , "Ancora Qui" by Ennio Morricone and Elisa , and "Freedom" by Anthony Hamilton and Elayna Boynton . The theme, "Django", was also the theme song of the 1966 film. Musician Frank Ocean wrote an original song for the film's soundtrack, but it was rejected by Tarantino, who explained that "Ocean wrote
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3654-408: The film inspired goodwill to other Native American chiefs such as Sitting Bull , Crazy Horse and Geronimo – as a result, "it became fashionable for Westerns to be pro-Indian". Many of the films were produced in the 1950s during the milieu of McCarthyism and attempted to strike back against blacklisting of the film industry at that time, notably High Noon (1952) starring Gary Cooper . By
3741-468: The film's music, Hollis Robbins notes that the vast majority of film music borrowings comes from films made between 1966 and 1974 and argues that the political and musical resonances of these allusions situate Django Unchained squarely in the Vietnam and Watergate era, during the rise and decline of Black Power cinema. Jim Croce 's hit " I Got a Name " was featured in the soundtrack. The first teaser poster
3828-807: The final cut of the film, leaving some unexplained characters such as Zoë Bell's tracker, who was intended to drop her bandana to reveal an absent jaw. Principal photography for Django Unchained started in California in November 2011 continuing in Wyoming in February 2012 and at the National Historic Landmark Evergreen Plantation in Wallace, Louisiana , outside of New Orleans , in March 2012. The film
3915-618: The form of money. These types of posters were also referred to as reward posters. In 2007, the FBI began posting wanted posters on electronic billboards starting with 23 cities, and have been working to expand this system in other states. This allows them to instantly post a wanted notice in public view across the US. In 2014, the FBI claimed that at least 53 cases had been solved as a direct result of digital billboard publicity, and many others had been solved through
4002-626: The genre. The spaghetti Westerns of the 1960s, not bound by the Hays Code, were strongly revisionist by presenting morally ambiguous stories featuring an anti-hero or a sympathetic villain . From 1969, revisionism has prevailed in Western film production. The traditional Western typically features a strong male lead character, often a lawman or cavalry officer, who takes direct action on behalf of supposedly civilized people against those deemed to be uncivilized ( see also : Civilizing mission ). The former are portrayed as honest townsfolk or travelers, and
4089-632: The ground. He encourages the freed slaves to take revenge, and they shoot Dicky to death. Schultz offers Django his freedom and $ 75 in exchange for help tracking down the Brittles. Django and Schultz kill the Brittle brothers at Spencer "Big Daddy" Bennett's Tennessee plantation. In turn, Bennett pursues them with an armed posse . Schultz ambushes the posse with explosives, and Django kills Bennett. Feeling responsible for Django, Schultz agrees to help him find and rescue Broomhilda, and Schultz trains Django to become
4176-442: The grounds, as if the setting is Versailles, mixed in with occasional acts of barbarism against slaves ... That authenticity card that Tarantino uses to buy all those 'niggers' has an awfully selective memory." He also criticizes what seems to be a lack of solidarity among slave characters, and their general lack of a will to escape from slavery, with Django as the notable exception. Wesley Morris of The Boston Globe praised
4263-416: The idea of giving that much power to anybody on one of my movies." The film's soundtrack album was released on December 18, 2012. Morricone made statements criticizing Tarantino's use of his music in Django Unchained and stated that he would "never work" with the director after this film, but later agreed to compose an original film score for Tarantino's The Hateful Eight in 2015. In a scholarly essay on
4350-399: The initial Mandingo deal during dinner. Candie's loyal house slave Stephen is suspicious after realizing that Broomhilda and Django know each other. He deduces their plan and alerts Candie. Enraged, Candie tells Schultz at gunpoint that he won't sell Broomhilda for less than $ 12,000; Schultz reluctantly agrees. Candie threatens to kill Broomhilda if Schultz does not shake his hand to seal
4437-511: The lashings really hit her back. And to dramatize her punishment inside an underground, coffin-size metal container, she and Tarantino agreed she would spend time barely clothed in the "hot box" before the filming began so the feeling of confinement would be as realistic as possible. Django Unchained was the first Tarantino film not edited by Sally Menke , who died in 2010. Editing duties were instead handled by Fred Raskin , who had worked as an assistant editor on Tarantino's Kill Bill . Raskin
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#17328760331524524-692: The late 1960s, independent filmmakers produced revisionist and hallucinogenic films, later retroactively identified as the separate but related subgenre of " acid Westerns ,” that radically turn the usual trappings of the Western genre inside out to critique both capitalism and the counterculture . Monte Hellman 's The Shooting and Ride in the Whirlwind (1966), Alejandro Jodorowsky 's El Topo ( 1970 ), Roland Klick 's Deadlock (1970), Robert Downey Sr. 's Greaser's Palace ( 1972 ), Alex Cox 's Walker ( 1987 ), and Jim Jarmusch 's Dead Man ( 1995 ) fall into this category. Films made during
4611-477: The latter as outlaws or hostile Native Americans . In the revisionist Western, the traditional format and themes are subverted by such devices as the Native American protagonist; strong female characters ; the outlaw protagonist; plots that are pre-eminently concerned with survival in a wild environment; or the presentation of a morally ambiguous storyline without definite heroes, these often featuring
4698-569: The most successful directors were Italian, resulting in these films being known by the misnomer Spaghetti Western. Leone is often credited with initiating the growth of these co-produced European Westerns as he played a seminal role due to the financial success of A Fistful of Dollars. Scholars such as Austin Fisher have begun to pay attention to how in this popular genre Italian directors such as Damiano Damiani , Sergio Sollima and Sergio Corbucci , in responding to international and national events, chose
4785-482: The motive of enigmatic gunfighter Harmonica ( Charles Bronson ). As in Shane , it is not the gunfighters who "inherit the West" but in this case the compassionate town-building ex-prostitute Jill ( Claudia Cardinale ). By the end of the film, all of the antagonists except Harmonica are dead and, like Shane, he rides away to an uncertain future. Opinion is divided on the origin of the revisionist or psychological Western but it
4872-442: The offer. Intrigued, Candie invites them to Candyland. En route, the group encounters Candie's slave trackers , who have cornered D'Artagnan, an escaped Mandingo fighter. Django is forced to intervene when Schultz attempts to buy D'Artagnan to save him. Candie has the trackers' guard dogs maul D'Artagnan to death, visibly upsetting Schultz. Having told Broomhilda of their plan, Schultz offers to buy her as his escort while negotiating
4959-712: The owner of the Carrucan Plantation; M. C. Gainey , Cooper Huckabee , and Doc Duhame portray brothers Big John Brittle, Roger "Lil Raj" Brittle, and Ellis Brittle respectively, overseers of both Carrucan and Big Daddy's plantations. Jonah Hill plays Bag Head #2, a member of Bennett's masked white supremacist group. Additional roles include Lee Horsley as Sheriff Gus, Rex Linn as Tennessee Harry, Misty Upham as Minnie, and Danièle Watts as Coco. Russ Tamblyn and his daughter Amber appear as townspeople in Daugherty, Texas; their roles are respectively credited as " Son of
5046-644: The plantation, has ordered him to be sold to a mining company and worked to death. En route to the mines along with other slaves, Django devises an escape plan. He uses his first handbill to prove to his escorts that he is a bounty hunter. He claims that the men on the handbill are at Candyland, and promises the escorts a share of the reward money. Once released and handed a gun, Django immediately kills his escorts, retrieves his clothes and weapons, and returns to Candyland with dynamite . Recovering Broomhilda's freedom papers from Schultz's corpse, Django bids his deceased mentor goodbye and avenges him and D'Artagnan by killing
5133-407: The poker game appear in the final cut of the film. Hill later appeared in the film in a different role. Joseph Gordon-Levitt said that he "would have loved, loved to have" been in the film but would be unable to appear because of a prior commitment to direct his first film, Don Jon . In a January 2013 interview with Vanity Fair , costume designer Sharen Davis said much of the film's wardrobe
5220-415: The present include: Wanted poster The poster will usually include a description of the wanted person(s) and the crime(s) for which they are sought. There is typically a set monetary reward offered to whoever catches the wanted criminal that is advertised on the poster. Wanted posters are commonly produced by a police department or other public government bureaus intended for public display such as on
5307-466: The realism of the villain Stephen, played by Samuel L. Jackson , comparing him to such black Republicans as Clarence Thomas or Herman Cain . Jackson said that he believed his character to have "the same moral compass as Clarence Thomas does". Jackson defended the extensive use of the word "nigger": "Saying Tarantino said 'nigger' too many times is like complaining they said ' kyke ' [sic] too many times in
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#17328760331525394-420: The right to." Tarantino later explained the genesis of the idea: I was writing a book about Sergio Corbucci when I came up with a way to tell the story. ... I was writing about how his movies have this evil Wild West, a horrible Wild West. It was surreal, it dealt a lot with fascism . So I'm writing this whole piece on this, and I'm thinking: 'I don't really know if Sergio was thinking [this] while he
5481-475: The role of Ace Woody was not recast; instead, the character was merged with Walton Goggins 's character, Billy Crash. Jonah Hill was offered the role of Scotty Harmony, a gambler who loses Broomhilda to Candie in a poker game, but turned it down due to scheduling conflicts with The Watch . Sacha Baron Cohen was also offered the role, but declined in order to appear in Les Misérables . Neither Scotty nor
5568-500: The scene. After Tarantino's cut, there was a standing ovation by the other actors to praise DiCaprio's performance despite the incident; Tarantino, therefore, decided to keep this sequence in the final cut. DiCaprio is seen with his left hand bandaged in the scene after when he is signing Broomhilda's papers. Contrary to popular belief, DiCaprio wiped fake blood on Washington's face in a separate take. The film features both original and existing music tracks. Tracks composed specifically for
5655-421: The slaves. Other reviewers have defended the usage of the language in the historical context of race and slavery in the United States. African American filmmaker Spike Lee , in an interview with Vibe , said he would not see the film, explaining "All I'm going to say is that it's disrespectful to my ancestors. That's just me ... I'm not speaking on behalf of anybody else." Lee later wrote, "American slavery
5742-579: The snow as a homage to the 1968 film The Great Silence . " Silenzio takes place in the snow. I liked the action in the snow so much, Django Unchained has a big snow section in the middle," Tarantino said in an interview. Tarantino credits the character and attitude of the German dentist turned bounty hunter King Schultz to the German Karl May Wild West films of the 1960s, namely their hero Old Shatterhand . The title Django Unchained alludes to
5829-407: The so-called anti-hero or a sympathetic villain . The object is to blur the traditionally clear boundaries between "right" and "wrong" (the "good guy" against the "bad guy") by emphasizing the need for survival amidst ambiguity. The traditional Western treats characters in simplistic terms as good or bad with minimal character development . The psychological Western, which began in the 1940s and
5916-525: The summer of 2011, with Michael K. Williams and Will Smith being considered for the role of the title character before Foxx was cast. Principal photography took place from November 2011 to March 2012 in California, Wyoming, and Louisiana. The premiere of Django Unchained took place at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York City on December 11, 2012, and was theatrically released on December 25, 2012, in
6003-770: The time of the loosening, and later abandonment, of the restrictive Hays Code in the 1960s, many directors of the New Hollywood generation such as Sam Peckinpah , George Roy Hill , and Robert Altman focused on the Western and each produced their own classics in the genre, including Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch (1969), Hill's Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), and Altman's McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971). Meanwhile, European directors such as Sergio Leone and Sergio Corbucci had been making Western films unencumbered by American expectations nor Hays Code inspired censorship, and these spaghetti Westerns also provided
6090-534: The titles of the 1966 Corbucci film Django ; Hercules Unchained , the American title for the 1959 Italian epic fantasy film Ercole e la regina di Lidia , about the mythical hero's escape from enslavement to a wicked master; and to Angel Unchained , the 1970 American biker film about a biker exacting revenge on a large group of rednecks . Among those considered for the title role of Django, Michael K. Williams and Will Smith were mentioned as possibilities, but in
6177-702: The trackers. He frees Broomhilda just as Candie's mourners return from his burial. At the mansion, Django kills Lara, Crash, and the remaining henchmen, releases the two remaining house slaves, and kneecaps Stephen before igniting the dynamite he had planted throughout the mansion, leaving him for dead. Django and Broomhilda watch from a distance as the mansion explodes before riding off together. Other roles include: James Russo as Dicky Speck, brother of Ace Speck and erstwhile owner of Django; Tom Wopat , Omar J. Dorsey , and Don Stroud play U.S. Marshal Gill Tatum, Chicken Charlie, and as Sheriff Bill Sharp / Willard Peck respectively; Bruce Dern appears as Old Man Carrucan,
6264-570: The traditional Western, are nearly always the enemy of the "heroic" white settlers and cavalry. In the Indian Western, roles can be reversed with peaceful Native Americans driven to fight against white aggression. Usually, however, the Native American hero or heroine is played by brownface whites such as Burt Lancaster and Jean Peters in Apache (1954). In Dances With Wolves , the female lead
6351-417: The traditional Western, the revisionist subverts the myth and romance of the traditional by means of character development and realism to present a less simplistic view of life in the " Old West ". While the traditional Western always embodies a clear boundary between good and evil , the revisionist Western does not. Revisionist themes have existed since the early 20th century but it was not until 1968, when
6438-574: The work of Cormac McCarthy , an author known for writing revisionist Western literature, such as the novel Blood Meridian . European countries, which had imported Western productions since their silent film inception, began creating their own versions and, in 1964, Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars became an international hit initiating the spaghetti Western filone. Although they were mostly shot in Spanish locations, featured U.S. actors, and were co-produced by European and U.S. producers, many of
6525-470: Was Mary McDonnell playing a white who had been raised by the Lakota . There had been earlier films which portrayed Native Americans sympathetically, but the breakthrough for this sub-genre was Broken Arrow (1950), directed by Delmer Daves and starring James Stewart , with Jeff Chandler as Cochise . Kim Newman wrote that Chandler's performance established Cochise as "the 1950s model of an Indian hero" and
6612-607: Was delayed by one week following the shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut , on December 14, 2012. The film was released on March 22, 2013, by Sony Pictures in India . In March 2013, Django Unchained was announced to be the first Tarantino film approved for official distribution in China 's strictly controlled film market. Lily Kuo, writing for Quartz , wrote that "the film depicts one of America's darker periods, when slavery
6699-483: Was doing this. But I know I'm thinking about it now. And I can do it!' Tarantino finished the script on April 26, 2011, and handed in the final draft to The Weinstein Company . In October 2012, frequent Tarantino collaborator RZA said that he and Tarantino had intended to cross over Django Unchained with RZA's Tarantino-presented martial-arts film The Man with the Iron Fists . The crossover would have seen
6786-431: Was hugely popular through the 1950s and 1960s, prioritizes character development ahead of action whilst retaining most of the traditional aspects. For the most part, the psychological Western morphed into the revisionist Western as censorship restrictions were relaxed and removed in the 1960s. Shane (1953), directed by George Stevens , is a psychological Western. The title character ( Alan Ladd ) seems at first to be
6873-461: Was inspired by a fan-art poster by Italian artist Federico Mancosu. His artwork was published in May 2011, a few days after the synopsis and the official title were released to the public. In August 2011, at Tarantino's request, the production companies bought the concept artwork from Mancosu to use for promotional purposes as well as on the crew passes and clothing for staff during filming. Django Unchained
6960-667: Was inspired by spaghetti Westerns and other works of art. For Django's wardrobe, Davis and Tarantino watched the television series Bonanza and referred to it frequently. The pair even hired the hatmaker who designed the hat worn by the Bonanza character Little Joe, played by Michael Landon . Davis described Django's look as a "rock-n-roll take on the character". Django's sunglasses were inspired by Charles Bronson 's character in The White Buffalo (1977). Davis used Thomas Gainsborough oil painting The Blue Boy ( c. 1770 ) as
7047-467: Was legal, which Chinese officials like to use to push back against criticism from the United States". The film was released in China on May 12, 2013. The film was released on DVD , Blu-ray , and digital download on April 16, 2013. In the United States, the film has grossed $ 31,939,733 from DVD sales and $ 30,286,838 from Blu-ray sales, making a total of $ 62,226,571. Django Unchained grossed $ 162.8 million in
7134-457: Was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Editing but lost to William Goldenberg for his work on Argo . During the scene when DiCaprio's character explains phrenology , DiCaprio cut his left hand upon striking the table and smashing a small glass. Despite his hand profusely bleeding, DiCaprio barely reacted and remained in character under the astonished eyes of his fellow actors. He is seen taking out pieces of broken glass from his hand during
7221-442: Was not a Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western . It was a Holocaust . My ancestors are slaves stolen from Africa. I will honor them." Actor and activist Jesse Williams has contrasted accuracy of the racist language used in the film with what he sees as the film's lack of accuracy about the general lives of slaves, too often portrayed as "well-dressed Negresses in flowing gowns, frolicking on swings and enjoying leisurely strolls through
7308-515: Was released on December 25, 2012, in the United States by The Weinstein Company and released on January 18, 2013, by Sony Pictures Releasing in the United Kingdom. The film was screened for the first time at the Directors Guild of America on December 1, 2012, with additional screening events having been held for critics leading up to the film's wide release. The premiere of Django Unchained
7395-473: Was shot in the anamorphic format on 35 mm film . Although originally scripted, a sub-plot centering on Zoë Bell's masked tracker was cut, and remained unfilmed, due to time constraints. After 130 shooting days, the film wrapped up principal photography in July 2012. Kerry Washington sought to bring authenticity to her performance in several ways. The actor playing her overseer used a fake whip, but Washington insisted
7482-550: Was the third-biggest opening day figure for a film on Christmas, following Sherlock Holmes ($ 24.6 million) and Les Misérables ($ 18.1 million). It went on to make $ 30.1 million in its opening weekend (a six-day total of $ 63.4 million), finishing second behind holdover The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey . On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes , the film holds an approval rating of 87% based on 291 reviews, and an average rating of 8/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Bold, bloody, and stylistically daring, Django Unchained
7569-471: Was to examine the impact of gunfights on the participants by revealing their neuroses and redeeming characteristics. AllMovie's earliest films of this type are two silents: The Road Agent (1926), directed by J. P. McGowan and starring Al Hoxie ; and Jesse James (1927), directed by Lloyd Ingraham and starring Fred Thomson . In a similar vein, the Indian Western seeks to reverse negative stereotypes by sympathetic portrayal of Native Americans who, in
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